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Dragon Resilience returning to Earth to complete first operational Commercial Crew mission
May 1, 2021
NASA and SpaceX teams are preparing for the return of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth, completing the historic Crew-1 mission. Crew Dragon
Resilience is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC) on Sunday May 2. It will mark the end of the first of six contracted, long duration, operational missions for SpaceX as a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
ULA completes Delta IV Heavy pad upgrades ahead of NROL-82 mission
April 19, 2021
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has recently made pad upgrades to Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, ahead of the upcoming Delta IV Heavy launch of the NROL-82 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office scheduled for April 26 at 15:39 EDT / 19:39 UTC.
The previous Delta IV Heavy mission, NROL-44 from SLC-37B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was plagued by numerous issues, scrubs, and aborts that uncovered issues with the launch pad and its facilities.
After rolling to the pad in November 2019, the flight reached its first launch attempt on August 27, 2020. This attempt ended without fueling of the vehicle after a heater and pneumatic issue forced controllers to scrub the launch.
New permits shed light on activity at SpaceX’s Cidco and Roberts Road facilities
April 6, 2021
Building and testing SpaceX’s next generation launch system, Starship, has primarily been conducted at the village of Boca Chica, Texas. But just a couple years ago, Starship hardware was also being built at a SpaceX facility on Cidco Road in Cocoa, Florida, near America’s most active spaceport at Cape Canaveral.
Today, only a single Starship nosecone section remains at the site, but new permits have been filed showing that the facilities at both Cidco and Roberts Road in Florida still hold very active roles in the Starship program.
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